The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the NGO Section of the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), will host on 24-25 March 2008 the event called ASEAN Regional Roundtable on "Promotion and Achievement of Millenium Development Goals through Education and Outreach".
The ASEAN Roundtable aims to create awareness and bring together high level decision makers, experts, policy makers and representatives from civil society to deliberate on the challenges South East Asian countries face in achieving the eight Millenium Development Goals (MDG). Participants to the Roundtable will generate strategies aiming at improving and expanding capacity of institutions and professionals to cope with the MDG challenges. New educational and training tools will be proposed offering to academic institutions and trainers new pedagogical approaches adjusted and adapted to MDG needs. Taking into account the achievements of the four previous regional Roundtables, this conference aims to help implement the Millenium Development Goals in South East Asia, in time for 2015.